Tell Me No Lies
With every month that passes, it’s becoming more important to stay clear-headed. Things are moving very fast, and we need to know what’s going on. We need to devise, quite deliberately, mechanisms to stay tuned in to truth.
The news on TV is not where we will get the truth. (Let’s not even talk about commercial radio. That whole medium seems to have been shanghaied by the right wing, who use it as a podium for their most mean-spirited nutcases.) Television gives us a faux reality, and we need to
Drugged Senseless
Any skywatchers who have ever been enchanted and perplexed by the elusive planet Neptune are in luck. Its myriad mysteries are being writ large by the rare transit now looming in the sky.
Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune are joining forces in a conjunction that peaks for the first time on May 27th. Everything you associate with Neptune, the god of dreams and chaos, is being exaggerated by Jupiter. All the woundedness around these issues is being brought to the surface by Chiron. And to top it off: they’re right on top of the US Moon.
April 2009
Mood Swing Medley
In the USA right now, only four industries seem to have escaped the downturn unscathed. Sales of junk food, alcohol, and guns are way up; and, as was the case during the Great Depression, Hollywood movies are raking it in. This says volumes about the mass mood.
Cream Pies
The next seven years are going to be big. Forget the five-and-ten-year plans your consultant told you to make. We will all be flying by the seat of our pants. You astro-heads already know this. There’s been a lot of talk about the Grand Cross, the major configuration that will dominate the sky through 2015. […]
The Great and Powerful Oz
Remember in The Wizard of Oz, when Toto started tugging at the curtain behind which the old scamster was pulling levers; and the big scary face intoned, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”? The Great American Meltdown we’re watching now has much in common with that other great American tale. This time […]
Weed Wars
I am looking forward to Neptune doing its number on the US Moon (Sibly chart). On many different fronts it should bring home (Moon) the issue of drugs (Neptune). But if sanity is to prevail people are going to have to confront how insane it’s been so far. Take the foreign policy disaster some wonk […]
March 2009
The Wheel's Still in Spin
The headlines are disturbing, the mass mood is anxious, and the weather is downright weird. The Earth and her people are flipping out.We need a plan.
We need an approach that will keep us grounded in sanity and able to respond in the highest possible way. We need a perspective that’s way bigger than what passes for perspective in most modern people’s thinking. We need a model along the lines of what the Mayans had.
Barack, We Hardly Knew Ye
From most of Obama’s fans there’s been a deafening silence — the sound of people feeling stunned — rather than a real response to his handling of the Mohammed rendition lawsuit: his green lighting of the CIA’s continuing authority to carry out secret abductions to certain Washington-selected countries. But the fact that he has chosen […]
February 2009
Spring Melt
We wanted change, and we are getting it. Just not, perhaps, the kind we expected.
Speaking astrologically, what’s going on in the sky confirms that major change is here and more is coming. Planets that rarely change signs are doing so. Pluto has just moved into Capricorn, and over the next three years Neptune, Uranus andChiron will make ingresses too. This augurs huge shifts in the energy field. The collective will have its mind blown. If each of us stays awake to the current moment, the way we relate to our world should shift accordingly.
Silk Road Blues
What are we to make of Obama’s eagerness to amp up the death pit of Afghanistan, which foreign-policy-wise was America’s aboriginal Iraq? Historians know that the idea of “winning” there is a joke. No colonial power has ever come close. Over the centuries, all of the expensive attenuated military attempts to steal the Silk Road […]